Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2025 source ↗
Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
Oh, I have a long list. You should ask me what I like about myself—that list is much shorter.
I interrupt too much.
I can be properly stubborn sometimes – but that’s me being a classic Leo.
Playing the Cowardly Lion in our fourth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz. Thank you, Mr. Riccobono.
Procrastinating. I saved answering this questionnaire until the very last minute.
Gabby Giffords. She’s a survivor of gun violence and a relentless champion of sensible gun safety measures.
Being there for each other during good times and bad.
Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
Bear Grylls, Maureen O'Hara, Ed Harris, Andy Serkis, Michael Flatley, Carol Vorderman
Search the directory for somebody in particular.